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  The JEV release is prompting a widespread rethink of fundamentals around a novel primitive, similar to a React major version drop.

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  the jev release is giving react major version drop vibes. just a massive crashing wave, everyone rethinking fundamental stuff and thinking through the implications of a novel new primitive.

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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  Photographs do not represent the world the way human perception actually experiences it.

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  The problem with his old images, and with photography, was that that is not at all what the world looks like to us.

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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

From one piece Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  There is not yet a frontier foundation model robust enough for robotics.

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  cuz we don't yet have a a frontier foundation model that's robust enough for for uh robotics.

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  The biggest problem in robotics today is data, not chips; chips become the bottleneck later.

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  We should zoom out and recognize the biggest problem right now in robotics is actually data. One day it'll be chips, but for now it's data.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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  What a great book! A lot of interesting research and anecdotal data. Changes your perception of human behavior quite a bit. There’s also an audio version narrated by the author. And a series of free Stanford lectures available on Youtube.

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Factfulness

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  The world is bad, but better. The vast majority of westerners believe the world is poorer, more violent, deadly, primitive, and awful than it actually is. This book beautifully illustrates our ignorance, updates your knowledge, and gives you tools for a fact-based worldview.

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Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear-reactor company founded in 2023.

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  Once AI and robotics do the manufacturing, the price of any object becomes the price of the energy used to make it.

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  If you keep asking this question, what you realize is energy is the fundamental input. When we figure out AI and robotics that allows us to do semi-aututonomous manufacturing, energy will become the cost of all things, right? The cost of buying a thing will become the cost of energy used to make it.

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Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.

From one piece Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Robotics will not get a ChatGPT moment, because the distribution channel for a physical model is a physical robot and that cannot spread in five days.

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  I think that the distribution channel for physical models is going to be slower uh unfortunately because you actually need a physical robot there

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  Most future robotics training data will be robots' own autonomous attempts, the way most language-model data is now generated by the model itself.

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  Uh and just like how we see in language models how now a lot of time is spent actually generating data, generating synthetic data by actually running the model and having it think through things. I think a lot of the data in the future in robotics is going to be the robot attempting to do lots of tasks in lots of real world circumstances.

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  Most state-of-the-art robot foundation models have no memory at all, and that is what stops them doing long multi-step tasks.

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  So, you might be surprised to hear that most state-of-the-art foundation models for robotics have no memory or no context. They're just operating on the current sensor observations, the current camera readings, uh, and predicting actions based off of that.

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  Sensing the world is what set evolution racing: the first photoreceptive cells created the force that drove animal life to diversify.

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  But the first photoreceptive cells created a evolutionary force that propelled animals to evolve because sensing the external world changes your self-perception changes the way your relationship with the external world.

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Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  Betting a robotics company on today's component prices is betting it on a number with a short shelf life.

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  So, betting your company, betting your approach on today's hardware prices is just betting your company on a number that has a fairly short shelf life and is going to expire.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  The ChatGPT moment for robotics already happened a couple of years ago; what remains is the unglamorous post-training work.

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  I would say the chat GPT moment of robots happened a couple of years ago already.

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Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  Obfuscation is the most powerful primitive yet conceived in cryptography.

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  The most powerful primitive that has been conceived in cryptography is obfuscation

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  Labour is a huge constraint on the AI build-out, and the way round it is to build data centres as modules in Asian factories rather than on site.

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  um humanoid robots maybe start to or robotics at least start to but the main factor is going to be for reducing the number of people is modularizing things and making them in factories in Asia

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Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.

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  Polyvagal theory survives the 2026 "untenable" critique: what the critics contested was mechanism and evolutionary framing, not the clinical proposition.

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  The central clinical proposition of polyvagal theory-that autonomic state functions as an organizing platform shaping perception, emotion, and relational behavior-was not empirically disproven in the critique.

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  Robotics will be revolutionised a year or two behind the country of geniuses, and getting there does not require human-like learning.

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  does that mean the robotics industry will also be generating trillions of dollars of revenue? My answer there is yes, but there will be the same extremely fast but not infinitely fast diffusion. So, will robotics be be revolutionized? Yeah, maybe tack on another year or two.

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Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.

From one piece Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Robotics will improve the rest of AI rather than the other way round, because embodiment is what teaches a model which parts of the world matter.

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  I think that it's optimistically that it's actually the other way around that the robotics uh element of the equation will make all the other stuff better. And there are two uh reasons for this that that I could tell you about. One has to do with representations and focus.

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  Robotics is not easier than self-driving; it is simply being attempted in a year when perception actually generalises.

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  So, that's not an argument about robotics being easier than autonomous driving. It's just an argument for 2025 being a better year than 2009.

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  The brain is more parallel than a GPU, and an embodied model should run perception, planning and memory at once rather than one token at a time.

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  it's something like this that the brain is extremely parallel. uh it kind of has to be just out of just because of the biohysics. U but like it's even more parallel than your GPU.

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  Robotics has a bootstrap that computing never had: making robots is physical work, and robots do physical work.

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  robots help with uh physical things uh physical work. And if producing robots is itself physical work, then getting really good at robotics should help with that. It's a little circular, of course.

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  Having a job to do is what makes perception tractable, which is why an embodied model can learn from vision where a video model cannot.

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  Uh and its perception is in service to fulfilling that purpose. And that is like a really great uh focusing factor. We know that for people this really matters. Like literally what you see is affected by what you're trying to do.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Recursion

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  But for anyone who enjoyed Dark Matter, Inception, or any story that plays with perception and reality, Recursion is a must-read.

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  The aha moment for reasoning models will come from computer use and robotics rather than from scientific discovery, because those are the infinitely verifiable playgrounds.

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  I think it's actually probably simpler than that. It's probably something related to computer use or robotics rather than science discovery.

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  The First 90 Days

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  When joining a new company, your perception is shaped massively in your first 3 months. It takes a lot of work to change that perception later. This book is a practical guide on how to be conscious in focusing on getting up to speed, faster. (My rating: ★★★★★)

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Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  Venture boards govern badly because a VC director's interest in winning the next deal outweighs their interest in this company.

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  And oftentimes it's more important to them to have the public perception that they're good directors so they get the next best deal. If they have a reputation for taking on management too aggressively, word will get out in the small community of founders and they'll miss the next Google.

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